ALAJUELA, Costa Rica (March 18, 2010) – A nightmare scenario evolved and came to fruition for the U.S. Under-17 Women’s National Team as it could not find a way to score on Canada during regulation and overtime, eventually succumbing in a penalty kick shootout during the semifinal match of the CONCACAF U-17 Women’s Championship. The loss eliminated the USA from participating in the 2010 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup.
As CONCACAF member Trinidad & Tobago will host the next U-17 Women’s World Cup in September, just two World Cup berths instead of the usual three were available at this tournament, both going to the winners of the semifinals.
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You might also be interested in the ‘postcard’ from Costa Rica written by Kaysie sharing her experiences this week with the team:
It seems that this team loves its pranks. I would say that on the prank scale, I’m just the one who sits and laughs at everyone else. I don’t really plan the pranks and I don’t get pranked, I just really enjoy when my teammates get it.
The best one so far was probably when Olivia Brannon and Havana Solaun caught a small lizard in their room and put it into Morgan Brian’s retainer case. Luckily for all of us, it escaped from the case before Miss Morgan (our nickname for her) opened it because we all would have been in BIG trouble had that prank worked to perfection. We found out after that Morgan is REALLY afraid of lizards. Whoops!







